In the first 1000 years of A.D., humanity showed unprecedented tremors and horror of the unknown.

It's like the apocalyptic rumors that spread on Earth when the year 2000 came, when people observed terrible comets with long tails sweeping across the sky, and the sun of the new century was said to never rise and God's judgment was coming.

But who can guarantee that they will go to heaven?

In particular, the experience of poor peasants who were penniless told them that even if they wanted to go to heaven, they needed to bribe angels' tickets, so the panicked society in which everyone was in danger caused the crazy expansion of religion, and more and more people began to worry about the impending disaster.

The usually stingy lords, who were usually stingy, gave generously to the church, pious prayers and hadiths, the knights stopped fighting against each other, and also put away the sword that claimed to be fighting for God, and hid anxiously in the country castle, calculating the lives of the people they had killed, only the Holy See was the happiest, and the servants of God suddenly found that they had gained more authoritative influence in all of Europe than the emperor, even as far as the northern ice fields inhabited by barbarians.

There are also clever liars, born not afraid of any God's curse, who take advantage of this truly golden opportunity to peddle their own foolish tricks everywhere, and turn themselves into wise prophets and savior saints, popular among ignorant lords and peasants.

In the new millennium, God has not yet come into the world, and Satan is still rampant in the world!

England trembled under the obscenity of the Norsemen......

The German Emperor was disgraced in Prague by the Archduke of Poland......

The mighty Samanid dynasty of Central Asia is forever history......

Far to the east, the Song Dynasty was exhausted fighting its powerful neighbor to the north, the Khitan Liao State......

It seems that everyone on the planet is not having a good time!

Of course, I am not the one who is unhappy, but if you exclude the cold of the harsh winter and the grievances of nesting in the hut, this winter is quite pleasant, the climate in Neustadt, near the sea, is humid and warm, the snow is heavy but not to the extent of the closed door, curled up in front of the fire burning wooden halberds, sipping a lot of impurities of mead, watching two naked Slavic strong men perform thrilling wrestling, the mood can be imagined.

At this moment, I shook off the muddy water from my boots in disgust, and then reached into the middle of the granular melt snow next to me and wiped it, and then stretched my writhing eyebrows.

Yaroslav led a few warriors of his own tribe to open the way in front, and when he saw the Duke's hypocritical appearance, he pouted disdainfully, and they were stepping on shoes made of animal fur and sewn haphazardly, which was almost indistinguishable from the one in the cave man museum on the top of the mountain, which showed the lag of their standard of living.

As the weather warmed up, I couldn't stand the smell of breathing in the castle for the winter, and the foul-smelling air, made by the burping and farting of unruly Slavs, proposed to go out of the city to hunt.

Looking for some fresh meat from newly awakened animals to beat the tooth sacrifice, by the way, the activity of rusty and sour muscles and bones, won the unanimous support of everyone.

So there was a scene where I stepped into the mud, and the spring blossoms meant that everything was recovering, but it did not mean that the second army in Nijmegen was coming, and the mud caused by the thaw would make the already rough road more difficult to pass.

In particular, the cart full of materials is almost difficult to walk, and the cold spring from time to time is not conducive to long-distance transportation, and we have to survive more than a month of long time.

"Shh

Yaroslav suddenly stretched out his right palm and made a stop gesture, and everyone immediately fell silent, froze in place like wooden men, staring nervously at him.

"What's wrong?" I lowered my voice and asked cautiously.

Yaroslav leaned over and pulled the dead grass from the ground, and there was an imperceptible footprint in the wet mud that melted with snow, and the Slavs, who lived in the forest all year round, were more sensitive, and quickly recognized the animal that the footprints represented.

"It's a bear!" Another person next to Yaroroslav said.

He stretched out his fingers and tested the depth of the palm full of meltwater, and carefully rubbed it with his fingertips: "Judging from the depth of the palm print and the degree of water accumulation, it should be a male bear who has just woken up from hibernation, and it has just left not long ago, and its nest should be nearby." ”

"Bear?"

I covered my mouth in surprise, subconsciously looked at the jungle left and right, weighed the dozen people who followed me, whether I could put a hungry bear down, I just want to come out for a walk, breathe fresh air and embrace the warm spring, God doesn't have to take care of it like this, the new millennium will start to memorize the word, bad luck!

I pursed my lips, and I was already trembling and speechless: "Let's withdraw, that's a bear!" ”

The three Slavs looked at me with disdain, but they didn't expect the Duke to be so cowardly, Yaroslav put his bow and arrow back on his back, drew out the small hand axe hanging from his belt, and beckoned his two men to tiptoe forward and search the past:

"If you are afraid, just wait, just leave this little thing to us, the Slavs are children of the forest, and they are not naturally afraid of any beasts of the mountains." After speaking, he burrowed into the dense forest foliage without looking back.

He was despised by the Lyutics, and before I could speak, the bull was not happy at first, he felt that he could not admit it in front of Yaroslav, and they were constantly at odds with each other after a winter, and at such a time of needle-to-heart, face was more important than life.

"My lord, we can't let the barbarians look down on me, and there is no one to bully me in Nijmegen!" The bull was wielding his tomahawk, and his anger was almost about to explode.

"Stay with me, and I'll take my brothers with me, to see what the son of the forest can do all day long." He nodded at me, turned around and called a dozen familiar attendants to outflank Yaroslav in the opposite direction.

"Impulsiveness is the devil!"

I stared at their backs and disappeared into the woods, shaking my head helplessly: "They are too young, competitive ......"

While muttering to myself, I took the rest of the attendants and walked back the way I came, thinking that the bear was unlucky enough, and it was estimated that the neck would be killed properly, and the fight would start after a while, and the bloody crazy bear could no longer control the running around, and it would be troublesome to let himself bump into it, so it was better to avoid it now.

"My lord, will you go back now? Lord Jensen led the reserve at the bottom of the hillside. "I had not gone far when Rollo turned to me and asked me that as the Duke's personal attendant, he must always be by my side, and although he was eager to hunt bears, his duties did not allow it.

"The road here is too difficult, or you can step on the dissolved dead grass from that side and bypass it, I'll go ahead to find out the situation first, and you follow slowly."

I nodded, grabbed a handful of snow and wiped the edges of my boots, and I regretted wearing them a little.

These boots were specially ordered by Leonardo to be customized in Venice, modeled after the most popular style in Constantinople, using the finest first layer of calfskin, which feels soft and comfortable to wear, and the upper is also sewn with the dragon pattern of Nijmegen according to my requirements.

The route Luo Luo chose was not necessarily clean, the seemingly flat ground was deeply sunk when he stepped on it, and the splashed mud stained the Nijmegen dragon pattern spun with silver thread, although he knew that it would be dirty again if he wiped it, but he always subconsciously wanted to clean it up.

I stopped, waved my hand to the attendant to signal that I wanted to dispose of my shoes, and stretched my neck left and right to look for a clean snowdrift, this oak forest was very empty, the sun could reach the ground, the snow had long since melted clean, only a dozen paces away there was a yellow snowdrift, round like a big snowball pushed by a child's mischievous.

There must be something dirty in it, that's why it shows that color.

"I'll go over there, and you won't follow."

I instructed a few attendants on the side, who were afraid of bringing too many people into trouble: "Wait for me here." ”

Squinting my mildly myopic eyes as I approached the snowdrift, I was still wondering who was so bored to run into the woods to push snowballs and play, only to feel the steaming heat and heavy gasping in front of me.

"Is the sun so hot?" I scratched the back of my head suspiciously, reached out and grabbed the snowdrift, the touch transmitted back by the tips of my fingers was clearly fed back to the central nervous system, and cold sweat instantly covered my whole body, grandma's, it was alive, and it was fleshy!

The bear that was lying on the ground eating slowly turned around, it may also be confused by the small human who dared to provoke itself, and its mouth was still chewing on the tuber of the plant, and the small eyes reflected my panicked appearance, and from the nose and eyes spewed out two fishy clouds, and raised a palm as big as a basin to slap it, and its sharp claws were hidden between the fat thumbs, shining with a chilling cold light.

Said that it was too late, then fast, I subconsciously blocked it with the long sword in my hand, the bear's paw hit it hard, the sheath of the long sword was broken into two, the powerful force shook me and flew far away, a sweet blood gushed out from the corner of my mouth, Venus danced in front of me, and I even had a sober thought in a daze, it's over, my shoes are wiped white!

The howl of the bear alarmed the attendants not far away, and when they saw the Duke alone facing a golden bear, they were all frightened, and rushed to help, Rollo took aim with his bow and rushed to the front, and when he got closer, he let go violently, and the arrow fell into the right shoulder of the bear.

The pain-eating beast became more and more frenzied, opened its bloody mouth and roared to the sky, and ran to me and the person in front of me in two steps to stand up, and waved my palms left and right, I rolled to the side with my head completely instinctively, and the thick tree with the arm against my back bore the wrath of the bear on my behalf, and the wood fluttered into powder, and the huge canopy and another big tree on the side were mixed together, and many branches fell but had not yet broken.